Genevieve
Parisian patron saint
Genevieve is a French feminine given name.
Saint Genevieve is the patron saint of Paris, credited with protecting the city from Attila the Hun in the fifth century.
The name has an old-fashioned elegance: Genevieve sounds like someone's great-aunt who wore gloves to lunch.
Female financial supporter
- ParisFrance's chief city
- miraclesSupernatural extraordinary events
- relicsPreserved items from antiquity
- venerationProfound admiring respect
feastday · hagiography · intercession · medieval · abbess · piety · sanctity · pilgrimage
Of lasting excellence
- elegantGracefully refined, tasteful
- femininePertaining to women
- timelessUnaffected by eras
- FrenchOf or from Paris's nation
traditional · vintage · literary · refined · romantic · aristocratic · distinguished · namesake
France's chief city
- GallicOf France or Frenchness
- francophoneNative speaker of French
- ParisianOf France's capital
- French-CanadianFrancophone North American identity
bilingual · Québécois · Louisiana · pronunciation · accent
patroness
Female financial supporter
- ParisFrance's chief city
- miraclesSupernatural extraordinary events
- relicsPreserved items from antiquity
veneration · feastday · hagiography · intercession · medieval · abbess · piety · sanctity · pilgrimage · devotion
classic
Of lasting excellence
French · traditional · vintage · literary · refined · romantic · aristocratic · distinguished · namesake · baptism
Paris
France's chief city
- GallicOf France or Frenchness
- francophoneNative speaker of French
- ParisianOf France's capital
French-Canadian · bilingual · Québécois · Louisiana · pronunciation · accent
- elegant namesVictoria, Arabella, Josephine, Evangeline, Anastasia
- French CatholicismCatholic Church, Roman Catholicism, Notre-Dame, Sacre-Coeur, Joan of Arc